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Exploring Ethics of Innovation: Challenging Assumptions & Thinking Outside the Box

Dive into the ethical dimensions of innovation, uncover invisible constraints, and provoke outside-the-box thinking. Learn the distinction between morality and ethics, dissect historical innovative ideas, and reflect on contemporary challenges facing humanity and the planet. Identify underlying assumptions in your work and embrace a new perspective for problem-solving.

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Exploring Ethics of Innovation: Challenging Assumptions & Thinking Outside the Box

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  1. The ethics of innovation

  2. Who are you?

  3. Learning objective: Identify and challenging invisible assumptions that constrain outside the box thinking.

  4. Understanding morals v. ethics Morality Killing is bad. Honesty is good. (Charactised by being ‘bad or good’) Ethics Do no harm. Provide competent services to clients. (Characterised as a ‘rule of conduct’)

  5. What are some examples of innovation? 5 minutes in break-out groups

  6. I bet all of your examples of innovation are of things.

  7. Innovation: The introduction of a new idea, method or device. - Merriam-Webster dictionary

  8. What are some examples of innovative ideas throughout history? 5 minutes in break-out groups

  9. Mythology 13th-9th BC Death of truth 21th century Christianity 1th century Copernicus 15th century Newton 16th century Slavery is wrong 20th century Enlightenment 18th century Planck, Maxell, Einstein 20th century Renaissance 14th - 17th century Galileo 15/16th centuries Islam 7th century Feminism is a thing 20th century Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle 400 – 300 BC

  10. What made these ideas innovative?

  11. What are some of the biggest challenges that humanity and the planet face today?

  12. How do you contribute to them?

  13. What do these challenges look like in 25 years?

  14. Have you continued to contribute to the problems?

  15. Why?

  16. Can you identify some assumptions your current work is built upon? 5 minutes in break-out groups

  17. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that created them.”

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